Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard season ended with a whimper in the ninth, when Peter Bannish flied out with a runner on first, ending the worst season for Harvard in fifteen years...
Meadow was runner-up and could be declared the winner if the bodybuilder who won is disqualified. "There is a big controversy going on now and I still might win because the school for refrigerator repairmen, which the winner attends, isn't accredited," Meadow said...
...Brown, runner-up in the Ivies after losing to Cornell on Saturday, 10-7, was seeded eighth...
...could have recognized, back in May of 1960, such a hardy long-distance runner? Certainly not the critics. Walter Kerr, writing in the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, thought the show "a little less than satisfactory," and the Times's Brooks Atkinson found it "the sort of thing that loses magic the longer it endures...
Morris Udall, the primaries' perpetual runner-up, pushed on with characteristic good humor, but nobody took his candidacy very seriously. Latecomers Frank Church and Jerry Brown were still in the running, but some political analysts speculated that Brown at best was running for Vice President and Church perhaps for Secretary of State...